Cuban Press

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 loaf cuban bread, sliced in half lengthwise (or french bread)
• 1 (8 -12 ounce) jar hamburger dill pickles or 1 (8 -12 ounce) jar sandwich stacker dill pickle slices
• 1 lb thinly sliced cuban roast lamb
• 1 lb thinly sliced sweet cured ham
• 1 lb sliced baby swiss cheese
• 3 tablespoons soft butter (optional)
• yellow mustard (optional)
• vegetable oil cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat sandwich press (see note below if you do not have a sandwich press).
• 2 cut bread loaf into 6-inch long pieces. spread cut sides of bread with butter if desired, or mustard, or both.
• 3 on the bottom slices of bread, layer sandwiches with generous portions of pickles, lamb, ham, and cheese, in that order.
• 4 place top bread slices on sandwiches, and coat both top and bottom bread slices (outer surfaces) with vegetable cooking spray.
• 5 grill the sandwich for 4 to 5 minutes (2 to 3 minutes per side if using skillet and an iron pan for weight), or until bread is golden brown, cheese is melted, and sandwich is flattened.
• 6 cut each sandwich on the diagonal and serve with plantain chips.
• 7 note: home cooks often have to improvise as many don't own sandwich presses. a waffle iron, panini grill, george foreman grill, or bacon press will work. people have been known to cook the sandwich in a skillet and press it with a heated cast-iron frying pan or even a heated brick wrapped in aluminum foil.